Documents
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"An American Seduction: Portrait of Prison Town" by by Joelle Fraser
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Description of the impacts of prisons on Susanville,CA
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"The Development of Last Resort": The
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This study uses 1990 and 2000 census data to examine the economic and demographic impact of new state prisons on small town economies compared to changes that occurred during the decade in all other small towns.
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"The Economic Impacts of the Prison Development Boom on Persistently Poor Places" by T.L. Farrington and A.K. Glasmeier.
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The paper examine the effects of state-run prisons, constructed in rural places between 1985 and 1995, on county earnings by employment sector, population, poverty rate, and degree of economic health.
